AEW Dynamite "Homecoming": Juvi-Juice Running Wild

**Evil Vito** · 08-06-2021, 09:37 AM

To each their own. I personally think Kenny and The Bucks as irredeemable, obnoxious assholes are easily the best they've been in AEW.

For all that X-Rod or Vastardikai say about "EVPs getting pushed lolololol" they were getting criticized from people on here for losing as often as they did in the early days of AEW. "These guys made the company and are supposed to be some of the top guys but if they keep losing they won't feel special", now they're winning big matches and getting criticized for that. They can't win.

But character-wise it felt like they were just....there. Bucks had a stint of doing a half assed heel turn only to be face the next week, constantly the "will they won't they?" shit and it made me lose interest in them. Kenny on the other hand spent most of 2020 in a team with Page but he didn't have any real discernable character, just show up and do good wrestle things and call it a day. His gradual turn into a mega douche and then slowly roping the Bucks into it really worked for me.

Their characters might not be to everyone's tastes but it obviously is effective heel work. Crowds are rooting for Hangman to beat Omega vs. saying "meh, fuck the Elite" and changing the channel. Page feels like a bigger babyface for having The Elite to work opposite than he would be without them, and that's what good heel work is. It's sorta jarring to see heels actually being heels in this company after years of WWE conditioning where faces get booked to be even bigger assholes than the heels themselves.

The bigger thing though is everyone can see the endgame and that the heels will, eventually, get their comeuppance which is how it should be. Page will beat Omega for the belt, don't know where, don't know when, but it will happen. A hot face team will eventually knock off the Bucks too, my money is still on Santana and Ortiz once they finish their business with FTR.

08-06-2021, 09:37 AM	#11
Evil Vito President of Freedonia Posts: 58,383	To each their own. I personally think Kenny and The Bucks as irredeemable, obnoxious assholes are easily the best they've been in AEW. For all that X-Rod or Vastardikai say about "EVPs getting pushed lolololol" they were getting criticized from people on here for losing as often as they did in the early days of AEW. "These guys made the company and are supposed to be some of the top guys but if they keep losing they won't feel special", now they're winning big matches and getting criticized for that. They can't win. But character-wise it felt like they were just....there. Bucks had a stint of doing a half assed heel turn only to be face the next week, constantly the "will they won't they?" shit and it made me lose interest in them. Kenny on the other hand spent most of 2020 in a team with Page but he didn't have any real discernable character, just show up and do good wrestle things and call it a day. His gradual turn into a mega douche and then slowly roping the Bucks into it really worked for me. Their characters might not be to everyone's tastes but it obviously is effective heel work. Crowds are rooting for Hangman to beat Omega vs. saying "meh, fuck the Elite" and changing the channel. Page feels like a bigger babyface for having The Elite to work opposite than he would be without them, and that's what good heel work is. It's sorta jarring to see heels actually being heels in this company after years of WWE conditioning where faces get booked to be even bigger assholes than the heels themselves. The bigger thing though is everyone can see the endgame and that the heels will, eventually, get their comeuppance which is how it should be. Page will beat Omega for the belt, don't know where, don't know when, but it will happen. A hot face team will eventually knock off the Bucks too, my money is still on Santana and Ortiz once they finish their business with FTR.